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The Seat
The office
Detail of the President’s Office
Virtual Tour of the Palace of Navarre
The President of the Government of Navarre has an office in the Palacio de Navarra (Palace of Navarre), which for 150 years has been the seat of the Diputación de Navarra. It’s Noble Floor (the one of artistic interest) houses the office of the President and of several of the Ministers, the Throne Room, the Government Cabinet Office, as well as several rooms and halls for meetings and ceremonial purposes.
The Presidency is one of the Palace’s more noteworthy rooms.
Besides its institutional significance, as it is where the President of the Government of Navarre works and holds audiences, the Office is an outstanding feature within the Palace because of the artistic value of its ornament.
A large tapestry is hung there depicting the historic moment in which King Sancho the Strong of Navarre, astride a white horse, wields his mace to breach the stockade of the Moorish king at the battle of Navas de Tolosa in 1212. The tapestry was made by Vicente Pascual in 1950, following a drawing by the painter Ramón Stolz.
The treasure of greatest value contained in the room is the portrait of Ferdinand VII, painted by Francisco de Goya in 1814, upon the express commission of the Diputación of the Kingdom of Navarre.
The office also hangs the portraits of two of the four wives of Ferdinand VII: one is of María Isabel de Braganza, by Federico de Madrazo; and the other is of María Cristina de Borbón, by Vicente López.
Other items of interest in the room are two Sèvres vases with onyx feet, an English clock in a lacquered box, dating from around 1800, and an ivory Christ on a mahogany cross.